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At the start-of-term feast at Hogwarts, Dumbledore announces Snape as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Horace Slughorn, a former teacher who himself had taught Snape during his Hogwarts years, comes out of retirement and replaces him as Potions Master. With Snape no longer teaching Potions, Harry enrols in Slughorn's class and is lent an old textbook until his new one arrives. Harry finds marginalia, including a variety of hexes and jinxes seemingly invented by an unknown student, and substantial improvements to the book's standard potion-making instructions. The text is inscribed as being "the Property of the Half-Blood Prince". The notes greatly bolster Harry's performance in Potions, so much so that he impresses Slughorn. Snape, who maintains that he "never had the impression that [he] had been able to teach Potter anything at all", is suspicious of Harry's newfound Potions success. [35] Crying Wolf: Invoked by Dumbledore's painting who warns them about this. He really is trying to help Harry in the seventh book and protect his students as temporary Headmaster of Hogwarts. The problem is that the students don't believe that he's protecting them and are rebelling in as many ways as possible. Dumbledore also tells him that Harry and Hermione won't believe Snape is sneaking them the sword of Gryffindor and has to be unseen while passing it onto them. As the years at Hogwarts unfolded, we learnt more about Snape’s double life. After all, this was the man who had used both the Killing Curse on Albus Dumbledore and the Patronus Charm that guided Harry through a hopeless moment in the space of a year. Yes, Snape may have operated through cruel remarks and unsavoury deeds, but his wand history often showed great power and nobility. Bellatrix Lestrange a b "J.K. Rowling interview transcript". The Connection. WBUR Radio. 12 October 1999. Archived from the original on 6 August 2012 . Retrieved 14 March 2008.

Adler, Shawn (15 October 2007). " 'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Meets With L.A. Students, Plots Her Next Move". MTV News. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012 . Retrieved 14 November 2012. Even Snape thinks it was cruel of Dumbledore to keep Harry alive so that he could "die" at Voldemort's hands, accusing him of using Lily's memory to manipulate Snape to serve his plans.

JK Rowling interview in full". CBBC. 2 November 2001. Archived from the original on 16 September 2019 . Retrieved 29 July 2007. Snape's role in the fourth novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is not substantially different from that of the previous three books. He is apoplectic when Harry is unexpectedly entered into the Triwizard Tournament. Later Harry accidentally falls into Dumbledore's Pensieve and views memories of several Death Eater trials from years before. At one point, Snape is named as a Death Eater by Igor Karkaroff, but Dumbledore comes to Snape's defence, claiming that although Snape had indeed been a Death Eater, he changed sides before Voldemort's downfall and turned spy against him. Later, Dumbledore assures Harry that Snape's reformation is genuine, though he refuses to tell Harry how he knows this, saying the information "is a matter between Professor Snape and myself". [29] He also promised Dumbledore that he would do everything he could to protect the students of Hogwarts during Voldemort's return to power. During his tenure as headmaster he admirably used his position to contain the sadistic Carrows and protect the students as best he could without giving himself away.

Snape likewise resents Harry Potter simply because of who his father is, and who he looks like, and what Harry represents (as Rowling notes "living proof that [Lily] preferred another man"), projecting his loathing of James onto Harry. Snape is torn as Harry is both the son of the man he hated and the woman he loved. The movie stars we're loving right now". EW.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2008 . Retrieved 23 March 2008.

He was cruel to Neville and Hermione for no reason

Jess Cagle (5 November 2001). "The First Look at Harry". time.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2007 . Retrieved 31 March 2008. Jenny Sawyer from The Christian Science Monitor commented on the character's development in the series. [70] She claimed that Snape is the only protagonist who genuinely has a choice to make and who struggles to do the right thing, hence the only one to face a "compelling inner crisis". She believed the popularity of the character is due to the moral journey and inner conflict that Snape undergoes within the series, as it is the hero's struggle and costly redemption that really matter: "[Snape's] character ached for resolution. And it is precisely this need for resolution—our desire to know the real Snape and to understand his choices—that makes him the most compelling character in the Potter epic." Armor-Piercing Question: When Bellatrix angrily confronts Snape about her distrust of his loyalty to Voldemort, he asks if she thinks he has fooled Voldemort himself, an accomplished Legilimens with a masterful talent for breaking into peoples' minds. For the first time in the meeting Bellatrix doesn't have a response even though this turns out to be true. I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death, if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."